'See' 'you' in the hive mind

Consider this, admittedly in the Scientific Sunday Sport. Money quote: "The work has culminated this week in the extraordinary announcement that these molecules in a marine alga may exploit quantum processes at room temperature to transfer energy without loss." I cannot help seeing this as being the beginning of one of those SF stories that leads us, via a rogue scientist (TM), into assimilation into the hive mind by Tuesday morning.